Example sentences of "[vb pp] even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this is very common you do n't know what you 're working with so you ca n't really be expected even if you get the answer if |
| 2 | Therefore , there seem to be two bases on which a contractual term can be attacked even though it does not attempt to restrain a party after the contractual period had ended . |
| 3 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 4 | On divorce a married woman may now apply for a property transfer order , and this can be made even if she has made no direct financial contribution to the purchase or improvement of the matrimonial home . |
| 5 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 6 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 7 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 8 | ( Eg if ‘ Painting ’ existed in the document and the search text : was ‘ paint ’ , the ‘ Paint ’ in ‘ Painting ’ would be selected even though it has an initial capital and is part of another word . ) |
| 9 | Not that any of my family could be that certain of the exact day on which I was born , on account of the fact that my old man had spent the night in gaol and my mother had died even before I drew breath . |
| 10 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 11 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 12 | The organisers saw Morse drinking beer all the time on television and thought even if I did n't know anything about the quality of beer I must be a quantity man . |
| 13 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 14 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 15 | And more crossed even than I knew . |
| 16 | If you do n't do this , the adjacent floorboards will be damaged even if you use a floorboard saw . |
| 17 | Hard working Ted says he does n't worry that his face is n't that well known even though he has been involved in most light entertainment shows on the box . |
| 18 | Australia were worthy champions and English fans must not be downhearted even though we lost . |
| 19 | Because all human beings are fallible , with individual fears and weaknesses , it is so easy for the foundation for a similar fear in our children to be laid even when we think we are doing our best for them . |
| 20 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 21 | She knew that he would be hurt even though she hoped that he had stopped loving such an undeserving , self-serving shrew , because anyone would be hurt by such a scene . |
| 22 | It has been completely restored and its former importance can be readily appreciated even if it has now lost its earlier charm . |
| 23 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 24 | Seed catalogues and bee magazines had not arrived even though he had been assured by the companies involved that they were sent . |
| 25 | But just remember that you are being judged even before you speak a word . |
| 26 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 27 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 28 | But Rita Marley was acquitted even though she admitted forging her husband 's signature . |
| 29 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 30 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |